readit
I found myself writing the same small boilerplate code over and over:
- expect the first argument to a node script to be a file path
- if so, read it contents and do something with it
Example
// cat.jsvar readit = ;var contents = ;console;
And we use this as such:
$ node cat.js
Usage: /opt/boxen/nvm/v0.8.8/bin/node ./cat.js <file>
$ node cat.js dog.js
couldn't read dog.js
$ node cat.js cat.js
// cat.js
var readit = require('readit');
var fileContents = readit();
console.log(contents);